A history of the Cavendish laboratory 1871-1910. With 3 portraits in collotype and 8 other illustrations (1910)
London, New York, Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 38
ic activity of Cambridge. I cannot do betterthan quote the more significant passages of this address.After pointing out the necessity for cultivating and diffusingsound dynamical ideas all the more, when such indeedis the respect paid to science, that the most absurd opinionsmay become current,… … JAMES CLERK-MAXWELL. CAVENDISH PROFESSOR 1871-1879. From a photogi-nph in the possesBion of Sir Henry Rostjne, reproduced hy kind permission of the owner. THE CLERK-MAXWELL PERIOD 15 Experiments of illustration may be of very different kinds.Some may be adaptations of the commonest operations…
